Category: Poems about Relationships

Poems about relationships

07/08/25 A New Renga for a New Day

Photo Credit: Mark Pan4ratte

After our break up,
My emotions fall like they’re
Built to lean on you.

I find myself in pieces
I’ll wait to be whole again.

This is a renga I did with a friend who also recently experienced a breakup. A renga is a Japanese haiku-like poem game where one person writes a 5-7-5 poem (so a haiku), and then the other poet completes it with 7-7.

Second poem for today:

In this quiet moment, the one won
By me, because I set set-
Backs aside, I’d
Chose this again, in
Order to make myself myself

This is an echo poem, where you end each line by repeating either the sound of the last word or syllable: https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/echo-verse-poetic-forms

07/07/25 A New Kwansaba for a New Day

Photo Credit: Andrik Langfield

-for my ex-girlfriend

we set off united with joyful hearts
though we ended up having to part
i still cherish my time with you
writing silly stories, hiking through distant lands
you’ll always have a place in my story
for pushing me out of my rut
hope you say the same about me

We recently broke up, and I used the kwansaba format to reflect on this. It’s 7 lines, with seven words per line, where each word must be less than seven letters. Evidently, they are intended as a praise poem, mostly to celebrate family and African-American, although in this case, I took a slightly looser interpretation of that part. A girlfriend can count as family though.

Blast from the Past:

I feel like this would
Be easier if I could
Simply despise you

07/03/25 A New Haiku a New Day

Photo Credit: Paul Stollery

Don’t have to do much
For a cat to be willing
To jump on you lap

(And then immediately jump right back off.)

Blast from the Past:

The cat naps content
Knowing that she will have food
When she is ready.

04/23/25 A New Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: DIEU

Show me your tears
And I will show you how I can cry with you.

Show me your anger
And I will help you flip tables.

Show me your joy
And I will show you how I can smile with you

Show me your fear
And I will show you how I try to convince myself that I am secure

Sing me your song
And I will provide its darker melody

Show me your dance
And I will make you look even more elegant as I stumble along with you

Show me your grief,
And I will ponder what was lost with you

Show me your hopes and dreams,
And I will bask in their glory with you

Show me your worries,
And I will tell you which ones scare me too

Show me your mind,
And I will run mental loops around you until we are both confused

Show me your love,
And I will counter it with my own

Lean on me,
And I will show you how to lean on no one else ever again

Blast from the Past:

Would you still love me
If the sun dies out and our
Corpses are frozen?